ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,307, issued on May 26, was assigned to ANHEUSER-BUSCH INBEV S.A. (Brussels).

"System for treating and processing a primary packaging container" was invented by Wim Dekocker (Leuven, Belgium), Marcelo Petramale (Leuven, Belgium), Glenn Ferreira (Leuven, Belgium) and Philippe Jean Marie Duperray (Chateauroux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a system for treating primary container packaging comprising *-a main transportation unit (102) configured to transport a number of gripping units (108) mounted on independently motion controlled movers (106), each gripping unit (108) adapted for transporting an i...